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The popularity of French music in the rest of Europe declined slightly, yet the popular chanson and the old motet were further developed during this time. The epicenter of French music moved from Paris to Burgundy, as it followed the Burgundian School of composers. During the Baroque period, music was simplified and restricted due to Calvinist ...
The French musician Adam de la Halle is identified among these minstrels, [2] along with twenty-six harpists, thirteen fiddlers (including Tomasin, the Prince of Wales's own fiddler, Nicholas de Caumbray, vidulator to Philip IV of France, and the Englishman Le Roy Druet, called "King of the Minstrels"), three gigatores (rebec players) from ...
The following is a chronological list of classical music composers who lived in, worked in, or were citizens of France. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Medieval Leonin (c. 1150 – 1201) Perotin (1160 – 1230) Adam de la Halle (1240 – 1287) Philippe de Vitry (1291 ...
Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300 – 1377) Albéric Magnard (1865–1914) Jean-Yves Malmasson (born 1963) Pierre de Manchicourt (c. 1510 – 1564) Marin Marais (1656–1728) Louis Marchand (1669–1732) Victor Massé (1822–1884) Jules Massenet (1842–1912) Paule Maurice (1910–1967) Jacques Féréol Mazas (1782–1849) Jules Mazellier (1879 ...
Guillaume de Machaut (French: [ɡi'jom də ma'ʃo], Old French: [ɡiˈʎawmə də maˈtʃaw(θ)]; also Machau and Machault; c. 1300 – April 1377) was a French composer and poet who was the central figure of the ars nova style in late medieval music. His dominance of the genre is such that modern musicologists use his death to separate the ars ...
Jean-Michel Jarre pioneered electronic music, notably with Oxygène, pushing French music onto the world stage. In the 1980s, French pop fused international genres with artists like Vanessa Paradis and Mylène Farmer, alongside the rise of chanson nouvelle, led by Etienne Daho and Alain Bashung. This era was marked by new wave, synth-pop, and ...
date unknown – Richart de Fournival, French trouvère (d. 1260) 1216 date unknown – Safi al-Din al-Urmawi, musician and theorist (d. 1296) 1217 date unknown – John I, Duke of Brittany, French trouvère (d. 1286) 1221 23 November – Alfonso X of Castile, Spanish monarch, poet, and composer (d. 1284) 1291
Stylistically, the music of the ars nova differed from the preceding era in several ways. Developments in notation allowed notes to be written with greater rhythmic independence, shunning the limitations of the rhythmic modes which prevailed in the thirteenth century; secular music acquired much of the polyphonic sophistication previously found only in sacred music; and new techniques and ...